Tab end



March 22- '1927. 1,621,589

- w. s. HUNKINS TAB END Filed Dec. 28,- 1926 ATTORNEYS INVENTOR Patented Mar. 22,1927.

UNITED. srarss A azrsss WILLIAM s. HUNKINSV, or HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA.

TAB END.

Application filed December 28, 1926. Serial No. 157,474.

This invention relates to tab ends, so called, for garments, and consists in a novel form of pin tube so constructed and combined with a piece of fabric as to form a complete tab end, the end of the tab carrying the metallic tube being so formed that no metal is exposed for contact with the "body or clothing of the wearer. The main object of the invention is to provide an 1mproved construction which will admit of very rapid and economical production of finished tab ends. 7

In the drawings- I F ig; 1 is a view showing my improved pin tube blank as associated with a strip of fabric preparatory to the final operation of forming the tab end; a

Fig. 2 is a side view of the tab end in its finished form;

Fig. 3 is an end view of the tab end shown inFig.2; i v

Fig.- 4 is a section on the llne 4t of Fig. 3;

Fig. 5 is a plan view of the blank from which the tab end bushnig is made.

1 represents a plate of thin sheet metal of rectangular form. This plate is provided with slots 2-2 in the opposite edges thereof, and preferably about midway in the length of said plate. 3 represents the main body of apiece of fabric which is to constitute the tab end. To assemble the plate 1 with the material 3, I place the plate 1 on thefabric and then tuck the edges 3 8 into the slots 2-2. The plate 1 may be folded as shown in Fig. 1, either before or after this tucking operation. I then roll the folded plate, shown in Fig. 1, into the tubular form shown in Figs. 1 to at, which rolling 40 operation completes the process ofassembling and produces the finished tab end in which the free ends of the fabric are brought together so that they may be conveniently applied to the garment to which the tab end is to be attached. It will be noted that the metallic bushing is completely covered by the fabric so that it cannotcontact' with the body or clothing of the wearer. It will also be noted that the bushing is of double thickness, which fact permits exceedingly thin metal to be successfully used for bushing purposes. I

I claim: I

1. In a tab end, a opposite edges of which are slitted, a strip of fabric covering the back of said plate having its said plate at one side of said slits, said plate being folded upon itself to embrace between the two layers thereof the aforesaid fabric folds, said plate and fabric being rolled into tubular form to produce a finished tab end with a fabric covered metallic bushing in one end thereof. I

2. In a tab end, a strip of fabric with its sheet metalplate, the

opposite edges folded'into said slits and partly over the front surface of opposite side edges folded inwardly, a metallic plate folded to form a plate of double thickness with the folds of said fabric embraced between the two layers of said folded plate, said plate and fabric being rolled into tubular form to produce a finished tab end with a fabric covered double thickness n1e-, tallic bushing in one end thereof.

3. In a tab end, a sheet metal plate folded intermediate its ends and slitted at opposite 1 edges adjacent to said; fold, a strip of fabric covering the back of said plate with its opposite edges folded into said slits and between the two layers of said plate, said plate and fabric being rolled into tubular form to produce a finished tab end with a fabric coveredmetallic bushing in one end thereof.

4. In a tab end, a strip of fabric folded intermediate its length, a bushing seated in the fold of said fabric strip, said bushing comprising a plate folded upon itself to form two thicknesses of metal rolled into tubular form with an open slit between the adjacent edges thereof, the said edges of the fabric being tucked into the space between the two layers of metal and extending through the aforesaid slit,

WILLIAM s. HUNKINS. 

